Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns and Money VIDEO
Read into this what you want. It’s worse.
Sometimes songs have a way of distilling an event down to its bitter essence.
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Now I’m hiding in Honduras
Send lawyers, guns and money…
by Frank Roche September 12, 2012
in Thoughts
“Happiness is defined by the unhappiness that follows it.” Dan Harmon
By this standard, I was once an ecstatic guy.
I wore a jacket this morning when I walked Snickers the Wonder Dog for the first time in months.
I mark change like that.
Shirtsleeves. Jacket. Daylight. Moonlight.
It’s getting dark in the mornings now.
And I spent part of our walk thinking about getting a headlamp.
About snow.
About the onset of winter.
Employees notice subtle changes at your shop, too.
They might not say much, but they can sense when winter is coming.
How do you know how much to feed your fish?
It’s not like they can yip or yowl for more food like your cats and dogs.
And what’s the difference between a skinny fish and a fat fish?
I think managing people is a bit like feeding fish.
How do you know how much is enough?
Or how much is too little?
Or too much?
Most people don’t say a lot about what they need.
And most managers don’t pay attention.
Getting the balance right,
whether in feeding your fish or leading your employees,
makes all the difference.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to feed a fish and you have a clean aquarium for a lifetime.
by Frank Roche September 5, 2012
in Thoughts
Fractal Pattern of Egypt
A long time ago, we named our company IFRACTAL.
Over the years we got asked a gazillion times what it meant.
And how to pronounce it.
We hung in there.
“It means, ‘Interrupt the pattern,'” we said.
People called us The Fractals.
We called our shop The Fractory.
And I still pay attention to fractals.
The math kind.
I loved these on Kottke today in what he called A Fractal Tour of Earth .
That picture shows the fractal pattern of Egypt.
Check it out.
Pattern, interrupted.
